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Okitipupa, 
Nigeria
218,097 people lived in Okitipupa in 2025. It is the 2713th largest of the world's 12,138 cities, and the 100th largest in Nigeria.
Like every city on this site, Okitipupa is counted as a built-up area seen from above rather than as a city government's territory. Why that changes the number.
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People · every five years · 1975 to 2050
How Okitipupa grew
Count 10 people in Okitipupa in 1975 and the same count gives 32 in 2025.
On the UN's projection it will have 313,771 people in 2050. On the UN's projection it passes 250,000 people between 2030 and 2035.
projected (after 2025) · how sure the UN is: high moderate low
How to read this: read it left to right, 1975 to 2050, one column every five years, the height being people. Hatching marks the projected years. Below, a strip of the UN's confidence: strong colour where the census maps are recent and detailed, pale where they are not, blank where the place was not counted as a city.
People · your family's years · 1975 to 2050
Okitipupa through your family’s years
Put in the years your family were born. You’ll see how many people lived in Okitipupa in each of those years, and when each of them turned 30.
Nigeria · every city · 2025
Where it is
How to read this: every dot is one of the 457 cities in Nigeria in 2025, and a dot's area is how many people live there, the biggest being Lagos. The ringed dot in colour is Okitipupa; the grey dots are the rest. The outlines around them are neighbouring countries.
Area and built-up land · km²
How much land it covers
In 2025, Okitipupa covered 27 km², and buildings, roads and other built-up land covered 6.0 km² of it. That is 28 m² of built-up land for each person, about a square 5 by 5 metres. Since 1975, its built-up land has grown to 5 times its size, and its people are 3.2 times as many.
How to read this: pale is the whole of the city's land; the stronger square inside it is what is actually built on. The three are drawn to the same scale, so a larger square really is more land, and hatching means the year is the UN's projection rather than a count.
Of every 100 people in Nigeria
Its share of Nigeria
Of every 1,000 people in Nigeria in 2025, 1 lived in Okitipupa, which is 218,097 people.
How to read this: 1,000 squares, one for every 1,000th person in Nigeria; the coloured squares live in Okitipupa. The grey rest live in other cities, in towns or in the countryside.
Ranked by people · 2025
Cities of a similar size
In the world, 2025
- 2693 Gagnoa Côte d’Ivoire219,607
- 2694 Dhampur India219,479
- 2706 Omuo-Obadore218,751
- 2710 Tembilahan Indonesia218,371
- 2713 Okitipupa218,097
- 2715 Botshabelo-N South Africa218,046
- 2717 Dinjway Egypt217,913
- 2728 Bumba Democratic Republic of the Congo216,429
- 2730 Vientiane Laos216,305
In Nigeria, 2025
- 2571 Jega228,584
- 2624 Ile Oluji224,781
- 2679 Gwoza220,641
- 2706 Omuo-Obadore218,751
- 2713 Okitipupa218,097
- 2789 Auchi212,634
- 2861 Uromi208,157
- 2971 Afikpo201,084
- 2981 Omoku200,802
How to read this: the number before each name is its place among all 12,138 cities in the world in 2025; bars are people, on one scale per list. Only cities that reach 300,000 people have a page here, so a gap in the numbers is a smaller city.
Apparatus
Sources and method
The figures for Okitipupa are the UN's own, at five-year steps: an estimate for each of 1975 to 2025, then projection to 2050. Projected years are drawn hatched, and the UN publishes no range of uncertainty for a city. What a city means here, how the UN measures one, and why that number can differ from the one Okitipupa publishes about itself: how the figures here are put together.
Sources: UN WUP 2025 · Natural Earth · flag-icons. Every source, its licence and how to cite it →
Verified 2026-09-30 · 73 canaries